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...period squeeze. In all fairness, the essays suggest that her preference for writing fiction and poetry is well-founded. The value of the book reviews included (analyses of Kate Millett's autobiography Flying Marge Pwrey's Woman on the Edge of Time, and the works of Adrienne Rich, E.L. Doctorow and Tillie Olsen) lies not so much in their sparkling insight; rather, they reveal Atwood's developing ideas on feminism and female expression...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: A Voice of One's Own | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

DANIEL, the much-touted "Rosenberg trial movie" of August, is simultaneously a nightmare, a documentary, and a work of pure fiction. The producers, Sidney Lumet and E.L. Doctorow, walk a tightrope between ideology and reality, fiction and non-fiction--and the balance they achieve is precarious at best...

Author: By Nancy Yousef, | Title: Straddling | 9/28/1983 | See Source »

Based on E.L. Doctorow's novel The Book of Daniel. Daniel was inspired by the 1953 trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, members of the Communist Party executed for selling bomb secrets to the Soviets. Their guilt or innocence of espionage remains a subject of debate today, fueled by the appearances of several books about the case this summer. Daniel tells the story of the fictional Paul and Rochelle Isaacson (Mandy Patinkin and Lindsay Crouse), 1940's Communists executed for the same charges, and under the same ambiguous circumstances, as the Rosenbergs. The story is told by Daniel, the Isaacsons...

Author: By Nancy Yousef, | Title: Straddling | 9/28/1983 | See Source »

Audiences will undoubtedly walk into Daniel thinking about the Rosenberg case and view the movie as a statement about the Rosenbergs. Ironically though, both Lumet and Doctorow downplay the parallel with the Rosenberg case, and consequently any social or political aspects of the film. For instance, they insist that the opening scene--a striking closeup of Daniel detachedly and encyclopedically describing the procedure of electrocution--is an artistic device. Lumet, who directed the film in addition to co-producing with Doctorow, calls the scene an interior monologue, designed to reveal how Daniel is objectively attempting to make sense of what...

Author: By Nancy Yousef, | Title: Straddling | 9/28/1983 | See Source »

...generous for a moment. Grant Lumet and Screenwriter E.L. Doctorow (whose novel, The Book of Daniel, the film follows closely) creative license and a clean slate. Daniel is, after all, the story not only of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, but also of their children Daniel and Susan and their attempts to understand and revive what the film's press notes describe as the Isaacsons' "dream of social justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Romance of the Rosenbergs | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

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